Hello Ian, While I do not know how well TDF certification fits with respect to your project (I suspect there's some overlap but there are also lots of differences in terms of audience and purpose) I think it would be a good idea for you to use the LibreOffice logo , as it can only benefit TDF, LibreOffice and your company. My only conditions would of course be no exclusivity (i.e the respective parties are not tied in any sort of exclusive agreement) and that it does not preclude any future certification of our own.
Best, Charles. Le 04/09/2011 11:40, Ian Lynch a écrit : > Background > > As many will know we have been working on FOSS friendly qualifications for > end-users for several years now through the INGOT project. The > qualifications and associated certificates are differentiated across 6 > levels covering all software applications from complete beginner to > university entrance level. The assessment criteria are generic and based on > the UK National Standards referenced to the European Qualifications > Framework. Further, the assessment is backed by a comprehensive (Drupal + > LAMP) on-line system for managing submission of evidence, moderation, > progress tracking, reporting and authentication of certificates. > > We have been invited by the OpenOffice.org certification project to work in > partnership with them to support a large corporate training company in > providing certification of user skills in OpenOffice.org. This is simply a > matter of contextualising the assessments with evidence drawn from OOo or > products derived from that code base. The assessment criteria are no > different from those used for any office products but the evidence has to be > provided using OOo, LibO or other OOo based applications. In this sense > changes to OOo or LibO are unlikely to have a material effect on the > certification and that is a deliberate design strategy in the UK national > frameworks. You don't want to have to potentially change things on every new > release. > > The specific proposal is to use the LibO logo on end user certificates and > the LibreOffice name and logo on the handbook with full acknowledgement of > trade marks etc. There will be a payment back to the community for each > certificate issued carrying a LibO logo - I can't be precise at the moment > as we are still working out costs but it is likely to be around 50 cents to > a dollar per certificate. We are trying to keep costs down to get maximum > reach to less economically advantaged nations. High volume will make the > marketing dimension more effective but we also have to cover hosting, > quality assurance and other costs. > > I don't really know where LibO certification fits into this. It might not > and if so there is no harm done, we can just carry on as before. I just > thought this might be an opportunity for something that could be a joint > OOo/LibO activity and a means of raising brand awareness for LibO. Since I > fly to Ecuador with Manfred Reiter from Frankfurt in about 1.5 weeks and the > handbook is currently being translated into Spanish by Alexandro Colorado, > it would be helpful to have an answer as soon as possible. If anyone wants a > copy of the draft handbook I can send it. We aim to make it available from > Lulu in paper form, as an e-book, as a downloadable pdf and in web pages > translated into multiple languages. > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
